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Subject: Re: vending hardware needed
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 17:29:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 17:29:35 1985
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     You can actually buy this from DEC.  They introduced a coin-op PC
last year.  Unfortunately the machine is a DECmate II, which is a PDP-8 based 
machine.  (The PDP-8 is a very small mini circa 1968; it compares unfavorably
with a Z80 in power.)  They somehow induced a few universities to put these
in as coin-op word processors.  The thing cost something like 3x the price of
a Mac when it first came out, but you could probably get some cheap now.

					John Nagle